Wii...!

Had a cosy all girls gathering at MW's place yesterday. Great fun. Went crazy playing Nintendo Wii and we were all so physically drained by the end of the evening. Guess that's enough exercise for the week! ;)

Letting go...

In preparation of my leaving, we decided it was best that I started training my next in line to take over my work. Handing over has already begun and it is starting to depress me. I must learn to let go however hard it is.

No one is truly indispensable.

中秋节

With Mid- Autumn Festival around the corner, what better way to celebrate than with a nice hot pot of Chinese tea and my favourite snow-skin mooncakes? =)

PS. The green tea mooncake from Ritz Carlton is particularly good! Skin stays soft despite refrigeration. Am most impressed!

Much anticipated break =)

I have just booked my flight tickets to Switzerland in October! It is only for shortly over a week but I just wanna get out of this country and far away from work! Will get to bunk in with a colleague of mine who is currently staying there with her hubs. Hopefully I'll get to visit my friend in Germany as well if his schedule allows. Can't wait! Woohoo!!!

I spy with my little eye...

Why do I have this feeling that someone I know is secretly reading my blog?
Well, then again...maybe not. ;)

Tis the season for getting marrrieeed!

I have already got 5 wedding invitations starting from next week till December! Do these people know what they are getting themselves into?! :P
Anyhoo, here's Austin Powers and his mojo from our hen party last night.


May the bride-to-be have a very productive year ahead! *Yeah baby!* =)

Need. Some. Love.

It was a last minute decision to have the contractors come in to fix our lights and paint the ceiling yesterday under the watchful eye of my MIL. Now here I am on my only Saturday off in weeks with three loads of laundry and an extremely filthy home. My curtains have also been removed and hooked back incorrectly so now they can't open properly and I can't rectify it without a really tall ladder. Sucks really. Wish there is someone else in the apt who can help me. I need my mommy! =(

A beautiful cover of Damien Rice's "The Blower's Daughter"

A reason, a season or a lifetime...

It all makes sense now. That it was only meant to be for a season. Friendship that will however last a lifetime in our hearts. =)

"That's it? You made me come here first thing in the morning for this?"

That was what the contractor said after assessing the situation in my home today. Gosh...what was he hoping to find? My whole apartment in shatters?!? *faints*
Anyway, they have removed the dangling piece of ceiling so I am feeling much more at ease now. Kept having the mental image of the loose piece falling and crashing through my windows! Am keeping my fingers crossed that the rest of my false ceiling in the living room do not decide to give way as well. Apparently the previous contractor (from the previous owner) had not secured the wood panel properly so there is a possibility that I might get smashed to pancake just sitting under my roof watching TV. *gasps!* Better go inspect for cracks now....@@

The day my roof came crashing down...

Ok, actually it is more like my ceiling came crashing down. The wood panel for my false ceiling must have weakened and gave way resulting in this:


Thank goodness my main living room ceiling is still intact and no one was hurt. Why do these things happen to me? Sigh.

Be Inspired

Officially a [Mac] cult member

Slept really badly last night. My body was so sore from pole class and my 11/2 hrs gym session on successive days. I really should have been kinder to myself.

Anyhoo..managed to take the afternoon off to catch up on lost sleep today (Thank you, boss!). Am feeling much rested now. To make things sweeter, hubs returned home with a pressie for me - a brand new Macbook Pro! *woohoo!* It is funny that hubs is even more excited about it than I am! Haha! He is helping me set it up at the moment. Can't wait to fiddle with it soon! =)

Am so glad it's Friday already! It's off to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) this weekend for my friend's engagement! *Woot!* Back on Monday!
Enjoy the weekend, you all! =D

During the [blog] lull period...

...a failed IVF and a very heartbroken colleague. I wish their families didn't have to put her through so much pressure...

... an arranged marriage and a friend who is about to sacrifice all that she has here - a good job and her friends to move to Malaysia to be with a man she hardly knows for the rest of her life. She is scared shitless. Who wouldn't be?

...disappointment. From a friend who never keeps to his word. Why do I even care?

...the possiblity of working out something with HR to fly me back periodically next year to help out with our departments' work processes/ audits. I am not sure how this is going to work. Boss will need to be clear on her expectations of me. We shall see. Some source of income is always good but I think I will be pretty happy bumming as well. Haha.

Alright..gotta get to work. (Yes..on a bright and sunny sunday morning!) Need to prepare my slides for my upcoming workshop! *bleah!*

Gooood Morning, All! =)

(Happy House, Singapore)

Samurai Dog

(Kyoto, Japan)

Long weekend! Woohoo!

Am on leave these 2 days. Thought it'd be good to take some time off work to recharge and to clear some clutter from our apartment. Have already got bags of clothes and stuff I hardly use waiting to be transported to the Salvation Army. *Woot!* Will work on my study room tomorrow - time to recycle those journal articles. I will refrain from buying any more clothes, shoes or anything at all from now on. Could certainly do with less stress with the packing next year!
Busy weekend ahead! Got a wedding to attend on Saturday, friends coming over on Sunday and a housewarming party to go to on Monday (which incidentally is a public holiday because it's our National day on Sunday). And for the first time in a long while I'm actually going to watch our National day parade on TV this year. Both my mum and aunty will be participating in a dance segment for the parade so I'll need to keep a lookout for them! :) In addition, pole dancing will be featured in this year's parade. I'll definitely be giving the girls my support! =) Not surprising, it has already created a stir among our very conservative netizens. Oh well...

It can only get deeper

(Curious goat in India)

"As long as there is love, there is hope"

The Love of Siam is an endearing, romantic film with a homosexual theme (but nothing overtly offensive) between two good looking teenage boys. Essentially, the movie centers on family, friendship, love and hope. Watched it at the cinema yesterday and I was teary-eyed most of the time! Well worth a watch so do catch it if you can. In the meantime, enjoy the theme song! =)

The subconscious speaks...

Been dreaming alot lately. Reminiscence seems to be the recurring theme. Maybe it is all that talk about leaving (I finally broke the news to my boss and some of my colleagues). Feelings are still a little muddled at this point but it will be hard when the time comes for me to leave for the States second time round. Family. Friends. Work. I am going to miss them all. Sigh.